Network Security Engineer Jobs in South Wales

Network Security Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Network Security Engineer salary in South Wales is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 107 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.21% 0.088% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.098% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £37,600 - -
25th Percentile £38,500 £30,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £31,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% - -
75th Percentile £47,375 £32,250 -
90th Percentile £51,200 - -
Wales median annual salary £40,000 £31,500 -
% change year-on-year +26.98% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in South Wales with a recognized job title 1,300 1,020 1,404
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 89.32% 97.36%
Number of salaries quoted 859 580 877
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,604 £45,476 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -9.05% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

Network Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings that featured Network Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Network Security Engineer in South Wales

Network Security Engineer
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Network Security Engineer in South Wales.

Salary trend for Network Security Engineer in South Wales

Network Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Network Security Engineer in South Wales over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Network Security Engineer in South Wales

Network Security Engineer
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +2 2 £46,250 +46.83%
Newport - 1 £39,000 -
Network Security Engineer
Wales

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Network Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South Wales region featuring Network Security Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) CCNA
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) CWTS
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) CWNA
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms

Network Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 1 (33.33%) Welsh Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) CISMP
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) CWNA
2 1 (33.33%) CWTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware